Re: [Perldl] Troubles with CPAN indexing of PDL::NetCDF and PDL::Graphics::PLplot

2011-11-29 Thread Doug Hunt
Hi again, Andreas: After the latest mirror update, now my cpan command shows the correct index: $ cpan ... cpan[2]> reload index CPAN: Storable loaded ok (v2.22) Going to read '/home/cosmicops/.cpan/Metadata' Database was generated on Tue, 29 Nov 2011 03:32:34 GMT ... cpan[3]> i /PDL::Ne

Re: [Perldl] Troubles with CPAN indexing of PDL::NetCDF and PDL::Graphics::PLplot

2011-11-29 Thread Doug Hunt
WooHoo! --Doug dh...@ucar.edu Software Engineer UCAR - COSMIC, Tel. (303) 497-2611 On Tue, 29 Nov 2011, Andreas J. Koenig wrote: On Mon, 28 Nov 2011 16:05:05 -0700 (MST), Doug Hunt said: > but I still don't see an index from cpan: I found (and removed[0]) a long forgotten sanity check in

Re: [Perldl] Troubles with CPAN indexing of PDL::NetCDF and PDL::Graphics::PLplot

2011-11-29 Thread Doug Hunt
Hi David: OK, thanks--I'll wait until tomorrow to check 'cpan'. --Doug dh...@ucar.edu Software Engineer UCAR - COSMIC, Tel. (303) 497-2611 On Mon, 28 Nov 2011, David Mertens wrote: Doug, all - To be clear, when I fire up CPAN and type the command you supply, I get this output: cpan[1]> i

Re: The CPAN Covenant

2011-11-29 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 07:20:22AM -0500, Lincoln A Baxter wrote: > Or, here is another idea (which I have not seen broached), that could be > completely automated fairly easily: Mark those modules as unsupported > and open to co-maintainer assignment This already exists. Go to: https://pause

Re: The CPAN Covenant

2011-11-29 Thread David Cantrell
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 10:07:59AM -0800, Linda W wrote: > The person who I responded clearly stated that unless I was willing to > pay to make it his highest priority, then my patches would be given lowest > priority. No I didn't. I merely pointed out how you could, if it were important enough

Re: The CPAN Covenant

2011-11-29 Thread Lincoln A Baxter
On Tue, 2011-11-29 at 08:26 +0200, Gabor Szabo wrote: > On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 7:17 AM, wrote: > > I've mostly ignored all this but I will step in briefly. > > I am the author of a few modules on CPAN. None of them are major. > > > Other stuff of mine is in the alpha, proof-of-concept stage as